SBIR/STTR Research Award
Self-Aligning Flip-Chipped Wavelength Division Multiplexer Polylithic Opto-Electronic Integrated Circuit
Award amount
$999,808Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2003Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Irvine Sensors Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- QS98AJNH3J28
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
ISC has demonstrated the feasibility of passive alignment between bump bondedsemiconductors laser chips to polyamide wave guides in a Phase I SBIR program with enoughaccuracy to effect efficient single mode coupling. While this appeared to be an enablingtechnology for telecomm routers and switches, the commercialization path remained unclear. Atwo year company funded project resulted in a commercial product definition supported by TRW,CISCO, Nortel, and GTE. The Phase II project is now well articulated: the development of a 256channel router/switch with 10 Gbits/sec channel bandwidth, reconfiguration time less than onenanosecond and wavelength division multiplexer I/O. The product will be rack mounted andconsume less than 20 watts. The product exploits 3D technology from Irvine Sensors andsuperconducting high speed switch technology from TRW. Nortel, Cisco will act as hardwareproviders to GTE.This product will enhance U.S. telecom capability by at least an order of magnitude. BMDO willexperience dramatic data com enhancements for distributed supercomputer assets.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Stacked Programmable Analog and Digital Electronic System (SPADES)
- ANGEL Warrior
- Reconfigurable, Hybrid, Three-dimensional Memory with Infinitely Scalable Interconnect Architecture (RHyTHM Ø2)
- LIDAR Enabled Detection and Tracking
- Counter-UAS Capabilities Enabled by LIDAR
Research funding history
186 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2021). Reported award amounts total $64,762,800. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security